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adapted alternately appearance Barège beautiful Berlin patterns blue border braid bring the wool byssus canvas Cast centre chain chenille claret cloth coarse Commence crêpe crochet silk cross stitch Dacca drab drawing drawn dyeing embroidered embroidery employed engraving executed finished fleecy flowers four frame fringe German wool Gobelin gold colour gold cord green imitation inches kind Knit one plain Knit six knit three labour ladies length loop stitch maille manufacture material mesh Nacre needle needlework netting silk number of stitches open crochet ornamental pass pieces plain rows plain stitch ponceau practised purse putting the needle Queen repeat row-bring the wool row-knit row-net row-pearl knitting row-plain knitting row-slip rows of open satin scarlet sewing needle sewn shades side skeins slip stitch stripe tapestry tent stitch threads three plain rows tints turn twisted various velvet weaving width wire wool forward
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Page 43 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Page 14 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand...
Page 136 - We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 121 - Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake: But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows; the well-depicted...
Page 17 - For round about the walls yclothed were With goodly arras of great majesty, Woven with gold and silke, so close and nere That the rich metall lurked privily, As faining to be hidd from envious eye ; Yet here, and there, and every where, unwares It...
Page 46 - England alone, amounts in each year to more than four millions of pounds' weight, for the production of which, myriads upon myriads of silk-worms are required. Fourteen thousand millions of animated creatures annually live and die to supply this little corner of the world with an article of luxury ! If astonishment be excited at this fact, let us extend our view into China, and survey the dense population of its widelyspread region...
Page 11 - I have a couple of nieces under my direction, who so often run gadding abroad, that I don't know where to have them. Their dress, their tea, and their visits, take up all their time ; and they go to bed as tired with doing nothing, as I am after quilting a whole under-petticoat.